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    Bananas & Plantains
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    Intercropping banana with beans using zero tillage
    Zero tillage has many advantages in banana plantations and is achieved by mulching of the plantation. Intercrops like beans can also be planted without removing the mulch. Mulch is rich in nutrients particularly potassium. Mulching a plantation with grasses or crop residues at 2cm can add up to 300kg/ ha of potassium but incase mulch […]
    Duration: 00:07:52
    Macro propagation of banana plantlets
    Macro propagation technology is a means to produce clean banana plantlets in a 2 to 4 months‘ period provided the suckers are got from healthy plants and contamination avoided in the process. Healthy sword suckers are selected and uprooted from healthy looking mother plants. Sword suckers are suckers which are about 1m in length with […]
    Duration: 00:11:30
    Controlling banana weevils
    Across the world, people use banana and plantains for cooking, roasting and growing. Peelings of the fruits and chopped pieces are used as feed for livestock. But bananas have a small enemy called the banana weevils. A small black insect with a long curved snout. Plants attacked by banana weevils grow slowly and produce small […]
    Duration: 00:11:45
    Making banana flour
    Banana flour is made from harvested or bought fresh green banana. Banana flour has a longer shelflife than fresh bananas and it can be used in many ways. Good prices can be achieved with the flour. Banana flour can be used for products like porridge, chapati, pancakes and ugali. Flour production Harvesting the banana or […]
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